Feb. 25, 1905.1 
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! mizz^en, and made fine time out to Pollock Rip Light- 
ship and then to Shovel Full. Wind grew lighter, but 
with favoring tide. Were soon off Handkerchief Light- 
ship. At 9:4s A. M., had Cross Rip Lightship abeam, 
and had a second breakfast at 9:^0. Wind growing 
; lighter, we shook our reef and set balloon jib. 
A large fleet of vessels and tows of barges crossing 
the shoals in both directions. Wind very light, but 
aided by a tremendous tide, we made fast time and 
soon had Vineyard Haven abeam. Set spinnaker for 
a while and went through Vinej^ard Sound and Quicks 
Hole, where we struck a fierce head-tide. A"t 5 o'clock 
we anchored in Cuttyhunk Harbor, having made 57 
• nautical miles since morning, and the boat was lowered 
for the old man and Dodo to go ashore to see if a 
telegram could be sent home to let our friends know 
that Escape was safely over the treacherous shoals. 
Inquiries made of several fishermen and natives on the 
shore and on various boats brought the information that 
/e might be accommodated at the Cuttyhunk Club, so 
they walked over to the famous bas« fishing head- 
quarters only to find that the only communication to 
be had with the world was through the life-saving 
station a ways down the beach. Succeeded in getting 
a message telephoned from there. Made 57 nautical 
miles _ to-day. Grub running low. Dodo's appetite 
alarming. 
August 10.— Up at 6:30 A. M., and found the weather 
looking gloomy and the wind S.E. Hurried through 
breakfast and got under way under full rnainsail and 
made fast time before the rising wind and a heavy 
i following sea. Soon made out Brenton's Reef Light- 
ship, and by the time that we had Point Judith abeam, 
11:30 A. M., the sea had risen tremendously and we 
were yawing and rolling wildly, but making a , good 
knots all the same. No chance to get a lunch, so 
munched crackers. It is not the first time that 
Escape has run before an easier; but it seemed different 
away out here so far from land, and the old man at 
the stick could not help looking anxiously over his 
shoulder at the great gray mountains sweeping after 
the poor little boat, and at last, after two or three 
gigantic combers rolled under us and a fiercer shriek 
than usual went through the rigging, he gave the order 
to reduce sail. With a wide sweep and a dizzy roll 
to leeward, the_ boat came around and faced the sea, 
'lid only one wicked swell swept over her weather boAv 
jefore Emil had the sail half down and she was kept 
ofi on her course again. 
Thank Heaven we did not catch this easterly gale 
M'hen anchored off Cape Cod night before last. We do 
not like to think of that. No attempt was made to tie 
a reefs, but the sail was let lie in the lazy jacks, where 
the belly of it soon collected a barrel or two of rain 
and spray, which had to be bailed out with the bucket. 
By this time the rain began to drive past us in such 
heavy sheets as to shut out all sight of land. The 
log had been consulted each hour and our position 
carefully noted on the chart, but we were now nearing 
the dangerous reefs at the eastern end of Fisher's 
Island, and anxious eyes were strained ahead. A 
, good-sized sloop, carrying full sail and topsail, gradually 
overhauled us, and passed close aboard. Two men 
were working hard at her wheel, and she yawed about 
frightfully, almost broaching to several times. We were 
making very much better weather of it than she. 
We finally gave up the idea of trying for the Watch 
Hill entrance, as the weather was so thick and squally. 
We caught sight of it, however, and steered for the 
Race. Here it was so thick that we could scarcely see 
one-quarter of a mile, and the wind suddenly changed 
to N., gybing us in a tremendous sea. The N. wind 
cleared things up somewhat, luckily for us, as we 
found we had been carried well over toward Gull Island. 
Altered our course and went by Race Rock with a 
fine favoring tide and anchored off the Pequot House 
at 5:15 P. M., having made 56 nautical miles. 
August II. — New London. Overcast and rainy. The 
harbor full of warships and torpedo boats, with plenty 
of music and bugle blasts to cheer us up. 
It is a great relief to be snug in a safe harbor. Emil 
and Dodo off to town for supplies, while Captain cleared 
things _ up and put everything out to dry as soon as 
the rain let up. About noon the queer-looking sloop, 
now owned by Mr. T. E. Zerega, came in, and later on 
Tern came sailing around under mizzen and jib. 
f Captain and Dodo rowed alongside and found Mr. 
;] Hyslop very glad to see us. He is to anchor off the town 
•I to-night to pick up a passenger, and made an appointment 
( to start off with us for the westward to-morrow morn- 
.1 ing at 7:30. _ Wind being S.W. and the water tanks 
empty, we will not go out to-day. 
Afternoon. — The old man paid a visit to Zerega's 
new boat, Pleasure. She is a Herreshoff design, but 
very odd, her spar being stepped very near the middle 
of her length. Her jib stay comes to the stem head, 
and her fore stay to the deck away inboard. She is 
very shoal, wide, and of extremely small displacement, 
having been designed for use in the Great South Bay. 
- Just before dinner Mr. Zerega and his guest returned 
the call, and were much interested in our acetylene gas 
outfit. 
Got our ice, water and provisions, and are ready for 
an early start. Our troubles are over; the sound lies 
before us, and a few days more should see us safely 
home. 
August 12.— Under way at 7:15 A, M., with a fine 
Is.W. "breeze, afterward becoming.- nearly E. Mr. 
Hyslop, in Tern, started out before we were quite 
ready, but hove to and waited for us. We could not 
keep up with him, and he gradually drew away. The 
tide was tremendously strong in our favor and we ran 
along rapidly. W^ere a little careless about picking up 
buoys, and suddenly saw, right ahead, what appeared 
to be a rock awash. Put about quickly, and stood 
further off shore and tried to locate ourselves, but 
could see no buoys either inside or outside of us. Soon 
after we made the red nun buoy off Saybrook, and so 
^concluded our reef must have been either Hatchett's 
ajReef with the buoys drifted away, or, more likely, only 
a tide rip. It gave us a good scare, and Tern, see- 
g: us apparently in trouble, came up in the wind until 
we stood on our course again. Soon passed Say- 
hrgok, and then .Stratford Point, when Jiyslop bore 
away for Black Rock at about 3:30 P. M. The wind 
being so favorable, we kept right on, and quickly sighted 
the familiar lights on. Sands Point and Execution. 
We stood well out to Execution to avoid running on 
the Hen and Chickens in the dark, and anchored, just 
before 9 P. M., in New Rochelle. Our long cruise 
ended without mishap, and the comforts of home await- 
ing us on the morrow. We have made the distance 
from Monomoy to New Rochelle in three sailing days 
— not a bad record. 
August 13. — Packed our grips and bade good-bye to 
Emil and the gallant little ship. We met Jimmie Spark- 
man at the landing, and he was greatly interested in 
our fine run home. 
The Motor Boat and Sports- 
man's Show. 
Owing to a confiiction of dates between our goir^ to 
press and the opening of the show, we regret that we will 
be unable to give our readers this week any considerable 
idea of the features to be observed in this wonderful ex- 
hibition of such vast interest to the sportsman and yachts- 
man. Many innovations have been made, and the success 
of the show was assured from the very first. The attend- 
ance will undoubtedly be a record breaker for similar 
events. _ Next week we will devote much of our space to 
recounting the fly-casting, U. S. Life-Saving Corps, canoe 
tilting and similar contests, as well as a description of 
individual exhibits. The scheme of decorations, flags and 
green drapings, together with the abundance of cedar and 
fir boughs, is very pleasing, but the large lagoon will prove 
the piece de resistance. 
Dayton Electrical Manufacturing Company, of Dayton, 
Ohio, in their exhibit of their combined ignition and light- 
ing outfit, show the Apple dynamo, belt, gear or friction- 
driven, an 8 volt accumulator or storage battery, coil and 
switchboard. This arrangement will furnish ignition for 
four cylinders and at the same time light three six-candle 
power electric lights. 
Clifton Motor Works, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will show 
8; 14 and 28 horsepower four-stroke engines. This year's 
model shows many improvements over the engines hereto- 
fore built by this firm, and will be appreciated by those 
familiar with gasolene engine needs. 
Fairbanks Company, of New York, will show five en- 
gines, all running, built by the Smalley Motor Com- 
pany, Bay City, Mich., more than any other exhibitor. 
The marine engines shown will be 4^, 9 and 20 horse- 
power, respectively one, two and three cylinder two-stroke 
type and a small 2 horsepower engine. A 4 horsepower 
horizontal Fairbanks stationary engine completes their 
exhibit. 
The Trenton Malleable Iron Company, Trenton, N. J., 
will have a full line of castings made by that well-known 
firm. 
Stamford Motor Company, Stamford, Conn., will have 
a full line of two-stroke engines designed by Mr. F. L 
Sneckner. 
Lackawanna Motor Company, Buffalo, N. Y., in their 
exhibit show their three-ported marine two-stroke engine. 
This was one of the first manufacturers to realize the 
importance and worth of this modern construction. 
Spaulding Gas Engine Company, of St. Joseph, Mich., 
expect to show three engines, 3^ and 7 horsepower,' two- 
stroke, both make-and-break and jump' spark ignition. 
They make especial claim to their reversing wheel, which 
is the only one using a solid shaft and no outside sleeve. 
John Wanamaker, New York, will have a line of canoes 
manufactured by the Eraser Hollow Spar and Boat Com- 
pany, Greenport, N. Y., and several launches. 
Truscott Boat Company, St. Joseph, Mich., occupy a 
part of the island in the lagoon with their well-known 
line of launches and engines. 
Trebert Auto and Marine Motor Company, Rochester, 
N. Y., makers of automobile motors, will show their auto- 
marine four cylinder 34 horsepower four-stroke engine. 
F. L. Crosby Company, Bangor, Me., as usual will show 
sugs, game heads and novelties, such as ink-wells, ther- 
mometers, etc., made from deer and caribou feet. Indian 
moccasins and slinoers will also be shown. 
One of the new attractions this season is a line of gun 
cabinets made by The Yeager Furniture Company, of 
Allentown, Pa. These cabinets, covering all-the require- 
ments of sportsmen, and at the same time constituting at- 
tractive pieces of furniture, will no doubt be highly ap- 
preciated by a large class of those who enjoy the gun and 
dog. _ The present demand for Arts and Crafts and Mission 
furniture, led to the adoption of these styles as being the 
best and most suitable for cabinets of this kind, and with 
due care to workmanship and a high quality of quarter 
sawed oak in "weathered finish," not neglecting hardware 
trim of special design in "old brass," "The Yeager Cabi- 
net" is an article worth having, and will be a source of 
never-ending satisfaction to those who possess one, being 
a place for everything and everything in its place. At the 
end of the fishing or shooting season you lay away your 
outfit in such places as seem most convenient without a 
thought as to whether they will easily be found when 
wanted again. No doubt there are a great many sports- 
men who do not consign their favorite gun and split- 
bamboo to some out-of-the-way corner, but rig up a 
special contrivance of their own where these articles can 
be properly cared for and easily accessible in case of need. 
This is a good way, fo far as it goes ; but consider what a 
great advantage a cabinet would be, one specially designed 
to_ hold a complete outfit, from guns to fish-hooks, all 
within easy grasp, and an ornament to your den, living 
room or camp. 
The exhibit made by the Russian collective exhibitors 
of the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., at the National 
Motorboat and Sportsman's Show wiir consist of different 
Russian peasant work, house industry, made by hand, 
laces, embroideries, hangings, table covers, etc. ; fur skins' 
muffs, rugs, fur carpets, and other Russian goods. 
The Grand Trunk Railway Svstem has arranged a very 
comprehensive and artistic collection. This exhibit will 
consist of large photographic views of a comparatively 
speaking new fishing and hunting territory in New On- 
tprio, known as the "Temagami" region, which lias been 
made accessible this year by tlie building of a new rail- 
way from the norihprn terminus of the Grand Trunk 
Railway system, at North .Bay, throua'h the Government 
forest reserve, located 72 miles from the latter point. \ii 
addition to these artistic pictures, a collection of mouated 
fish and game are shown, including specimens of moose, 
caribou, deer, mink, beaver, partridges, duck, dtc. The 
fish of Canada are represented by black bass, speckled 
trout, maskinonge, wall-eyed pike and_ other species. 
There will also be biogen machines, projecting moving- 
pictures, illustrating some of the fishing and hunting 
scenes from the Canadian rivers and forests. All of which 
will be shown in an artistic booth, built of red cedar and 
decorated with green cedar boughs. 
The exhibit will be in charge of a representative of the 
railway thoroughly conversant with all the fishing and 
hunting regions reached by the lines of the Grand Trunk 
Railway system. He will be assisted by Indian guides 
from some of the different resorts. This exhibit will be 
located in the Garden to the right of the rear end. 
The Anglers' Company, Hartford, Conn., have on ex- 
hibition a full line of their metal-whipped rods and 
service fly-books. 
The Foster Rubber Company, of Boston, Mass., in ad- 
dition to the well-known Foster heels, will show a full 
line of golf, yachting and tennis shoes, all with the 
Foster heel. 
Wm. Hjorth & Co., Jamestown, N. Y., in connection 
with a display of Wrenches and pliers, will have a com- 
bination sportsman's tool. This consists of a hatchet, 
hammer, pincers, wire-cutter, punch, screwdriver and nail 
puller all in one. 
Klean-Al Manufacturing Company, 36 Vesey street^ 
New York, will have demonstration of their cleaning 
compound. Their demonstrators will paint their hands 
with various kinds of dyes, etc., and remove it with 
Klean-Al, and to show absence of deleterious or harmful 
ingredients will rub it upon their lips, teeth, etc. 
The Mianus Motor Works' exhibit will consist of two^ 
four and six horsepov.'er single cylinder two-stroke en- 
gines and eight and twelve horsepower double cylinder 
four-stroke. These engines use make-and-break ignition 
in preference to jump spark, and are of the heavy low 
speed type. Various improvements are shown in the 1905; 
models in igniters, connecting rods and pumps, 
Blauvelt Knitting Company, Newark, N. J., makers of 
fine worsted garments for street and sporting wear, will 
have an attractive exhibit. 
Boston Letter. 
Boston, Feb. 20. — At the annual meeting of the Eastern 
Y. C, held at the St. Botolrih Club last Tuesday evening, 
it was unanimously voted to adopt the new uniform rule 
of measurement with its accompanying conditions and 
classification. This action is not in the least surprising, 
for the yacht owners have been generally in favor of such 
changes as would produce better types of yachts, and 
Chairman Henry Howard and Secretary Louis M. Clark, 
of the Regatta Committee, have been the strongest advo- 
cates of the new rule in Massachusetts Bay. The follow- 
ing officers and committees were elected for the year: 
Com., Laurence Minot; Vice-Com., F. S. Eaton; Rear- 
Com., W. O. Gay; Sec'y, George Atkinson, Jr.; Treas., 
Patrick T. Jackson; Meas., Henry Taggard; members of 
the Council-at-Large — George A. Goddard and Frank B. 
McQuesten ; Regatta Committee — Henry Howard, chair- 
man; George Atkinson, Jr., A. Appleton Packard, Stephen 
W. Sleeper and Louis M. Clark, secretary; Committee on 
Admissions— Theophilus Parsons, J. D. Colt, Robert Sal- 
tonstall, C. S. Rackemann and the secretary, ex-officio; 
House Committee— Parkman Dexter, E. W. Bowditch, F. 
O. North, E. M. Beals and W. B. Revere, secretary. The 
Regatta Committee, under the leadership of Mr. Henry 
Howard, which performed such good work last season, 
will be even more active this year. The committee has 
not yet laid out its programme, but it can be announced, 
that it will provide for the usual races for the popular 
classes of Massachusetts Bay, and will also hold another 
series of power boat races, probably at the conclusion of 
the power boat race of the Knickerbocker Y. C. from 
New York to Marblehead. There will probably be other 
power boat races during the season, as the club has taken 
a great interest in the development of the type, and has 
organized a class to further power boat racing. It is quite 
likely that the committee plans to give another ocean race, 
probably to the eastward, but the final development of 
this feature will probably depend upon the response from 
yacht owners. It is more than probable that there will be 
an annual cruise to Bar Harbor, and this should be even 
more successful than the one that was held last season. 
If, as has been suggested, the fleet of the New York Y. C, 
joins that of the Eastern Y. C. at Marblehead, the east- 
ward cruise will be the greatest ever held. 
The Regatta Committee of the Boston Y. C. has or- 
ganized and has announced the following fixtures for 22- 
footers, i8-footers and 15-footers and two handicap 
classes: 
June 13, Saturday — Club race. City Point. 
June 17, Saturday — Y. R. A. open, Hull. 
July I, Saturday — Club race, Marblehead. 
July 29, Saturday — Club race, Marblehead. 
August 3, Thursday — Midsummer series, Y. R. A. open, 
Hull. 
August 4, Friday — Midsummer series, Y. R. A, open, 
Hull. 
August 5, Saturday — Midsummer series, Y. R. A. open, 
Hull. 
August 7, Monday — Y. R. A. open, Marblehead, 
August 14, Mondaj' — Club race, Marblehead. 
September 9, Saturday— Club race, Hull. 
A special series of races will be held at Hull for 18- 
footers and handicap classes in conjunction with the Poinfe 
Allerton_ Associates for cups and prizes, the dates for 
which will be announced later. 
At the annual meeting of the Wollaston Y, C.^, the fol- 
lowing officers were elected: Com., S. B. Wiley, Tr ; 
Vice-Com., W. M. Chase ; Sec'y, C. W. Dill ; Treas., John 
B. Given; member of Governing Board for three years. 
Franklin E. Dawes. 
The members of the American Y. C, of Newburyport, 
have been organizing a one-design sailing dory class, to 
be raced with boats of the Annisquam and Revere Y. C.'s 
and the Swampscott Dory Club. A meeting of the mem- 
bers interested in the class was held recently, but definite 
action was deferred until February 27. At this meeting 
several designs ranging in cost from $75 to $125, were 
submitted. One of the members of the club has offered a 
cup to be competed for by boats of the class. 
John a KiLLPBN, . 
